Fwd: IBM Power developer site

Ooops - didn't set the appropriate To: address :-/

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> From: Graham J Lee <[email protected]>
> Date: 2 October 2004 12:02:24 BST
> To: Felix Kronlage <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: IBM Power developer site
>
>
> On Oct 1, 2004, at 7:28 PM, Felix Kronlage wrote:
>
>>
>> On Oct 1, 2004, at 14:54, Graham J Lee wrote:
>>
>>> http://nextstep.sdf-eu.org/opendarwinintro
>
> updated
>
>>
>> updated text attached.
>
> Cool!  Thanks.  I've also added a paragraph incorporating some of 
> Brian's suggestions about giving people who think Darwin is a free 
> trip to Mac OS X a complimentary LART ;-)  [although I believe I've 
> been fairly polite about it]
>
>>  I'm also not sure about the 'marketing'-style intro at the 
>> beginning. I highly dis-like the userbase-bragging :)
>>
>
> I thought it was important to include this, as it provides some 
> context; the key readers of the IBM website are likely to be 
> [C-or-C++-or-Java]/Linux/eSeries developers who may not even realise 
> that the Mac is the same architecture, let alone that Darwin is such 
> an important project (the number of Darwin users must be about equal 
> to the *total* number of Linux users).  If we can stress the huge 
> relevance that the Darwin and OpenDarwin work has to the *majority* of 
> Power/PowerPC users, including those who use Power for HPTC, then we 
> can more likely get some of those Linux developers to jump ship and 
> join the OpenDarwin effort ;-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Graham.
> -- 
> Graham Lee
> UNIX Systems Manager
> http://nextstep.sdf-eu.org
>
>
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Graham Lee
UNIX Systems Manager
http://nextstep.sdf-eu.org